If you take an expression such as:
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"//FullForm
and colour some portions of the string, you obtain:
\!\(\*
TagBox[
StyleBox["\"\<\\!\\(\\*\\nStyleBox[\\(ABC\\*\\n StyleBox[\\\"DEF\\\",\
\\nFontColor->RGBColor[1, 0, 0]]GHIJKLMN\\*\\n \
StyleBox[\\\"OPQRSTUV\\\",\\nFontColor->RGBColor[0, 0, 1]]WXYZ\\)]\\)\
\>\"",
ShowSpecialCharacters->False,
ShowStringCharacters->True,
NumberMarks->True],
FullForm]\)
I am wondering if anyone knows an easy way to remove the colouring from
such a string - other than creating a fairly complicated string pattern
(bearing in mind that the original string might contain unpaired quotes,
etc!)
David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk